I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one. — Jason Biggs Copy Share Image
I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I have a very short attention span, so books have never been my thing. — Jason Jones Copy Share Image
People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
“The best books act like a powerful drug--they take you out of your own head into experiences, emotions and settings a million… — Anonymous-9 Copy Share Image
Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Students: did you hated when your Professors gave exams, and some of the books on the class reading list they actually wrote. — JOHN REYES Copy Share Image
In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed. — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
Pollio, who values nothing that's within, Buys books as men hunt Beavers, -- for their Skin. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“The ordinary detective discovers from a ledger or a diary that a crime has been committed. We discover from a book of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In the course of my research, I've read a lot of incredibly bad books - mostly by academics. I'm puzzled as to… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
My books for adults had been previously challenged and banned so I'd had experience with it. I always find it sad and… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I'll say this again: Her presence would be the best Mother's Day gift I could ever ask for. I know Kate Siegel… — Kate Siegel Copy Share Image
“History books call it the Underworld. Or even hell. But I know it’s neither. It is really called the Everneath, and it’s… — Brodi Ashton Copy Share Image
“When you hear the phrase “rescue the financial system,” translate it in your mind into “keep the debts on the books.” They… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“If you have read many adventure novels, you'll know that spies spend about half of their time in the sewers. They run… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
In my books, my idea is always to explore social context and social forces. — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
The most important book on the Internet is, essentially, the Internet. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“I won't stop writing until I am known as the Kurt Cobain of literature!” — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living? — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one’s demon. — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
